When you’re leading people, you have to be the rock.

September 25, 2013

Dana Harley, an HIV-positive prisoner in Alabama who helped the ACLU end the state's policy of segregating HIV-positive inmates. She said testifying in court made her realize that she kept a lot of emotions bottled up since her diagnosis.

Craig Gundersen, professor of agricultural and consumer economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, referring to President Trump's proposal to cut off half of food stamp users' benefits and instead provide them with Blue Apron-style boxes of non-perishables.

Bob Sloan, a 73-year-old who said he intends to seek medical aid-in-dying if doctors say he is terminally ill. But in California, where he lives in a veterans' home, the procedure is not available to people living in veterans' homes.

Priscilla Wohlstetter, a professor at Teachers College, Columbia University. Over the past year, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has softened the language she uses when speaking about her goals to expand private education options. Instead of the words "school choice," she often uses "innovation" or "blended learning."